Welcome to my Research Sources page for African American Art and Art History (1925-1968)! Chao Chen, Humanities Research and Instruction Librarian This COVID-19 edition emphasizes e-sources. |
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Bibliographies & Review of Books
- Oxford Bibliographies: Art History.
- The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
- Dissertations and Theses (Check out the bibliographies of recent dissertations on a topic.)
- Dissertation Reviews ( yet to be published, which "offfer a glimpse of each discipline's immediate present")
- CAA Reviews (College Art Association)
- H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences (1994 - )
- New York Review of Books (1963 - )
Digital Images and Web Sites
- ARTStor (more than 2 million high-quality images)
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Digital Public Library of America
- Library of Congress Digital Collections
- National museum of African American history and culture
- New York Public Library Gallery of Images
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Smithsonian Collection Search Center
(JumboSearch for) Books
Browse for Tisch library books on:
Note: WorldCat (renamed to be Libraries Worldwide on the Tisch Library homepage) is still a better place to get a fuller picture of books on a topic.)
Getty Research Portal Digitized art history texts in the public domain.
**Check the Boston Public Library's catalog for eBooks (and sign up for a BPL , Tufts students and faculty eligible)
**"Digital books" on Internet Archive
Scholarly Journal, Historical Magazine and Newspaper Articles:
A. All subjects
B. Art History, American History and Related Subjects:
- In EBSCOhost databases, you can select to search across the following databases, among others:
- Academic Search Premier
- America: History & Life
- Art & Architecture Source
- Race Relations Abstracts
- Women's Studies International
C. Black Studies
- African American Studies Center, AASC
- Black Perspectives
- Black Studies Center
- Black Studies in Video
D. Magazine and Newspaper Articles
Current:
- Access World News(more regional coverage of news)
- Factiva (more international coverage of news)
Historical:
- Accessible Archives
- African American Periodicals, 1825-1995
- American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)
- Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)
- More